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By Pankaj K
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What ShardLab Is Actually Betting On. Hojin Kim of ShardLab put the goal in plainer terms — getting technologies out of pilot phases and…
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Southeast Asia's Demographics Do a Lot of Work Here. The region isn't a random choice. Southeast Asia has a large, young population with high mobile…
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ShardLab, working alongside Hashed, has moved into StoreHub — a commerce and payments platform running across more than 20,000 merchant locations in Southeast Asia. The bet is big.
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The deal marks ShardLab's first serious push into real-world commerce infrastructure. Up to now, the company — which operates as the innovation arm of Hashed — has stayed closer…
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Wai Hong Fong of StoreHub was pretty direct about what matters most: helping merchants increase sales. Full stop.
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Hojin Kim of ShardLab put the goal in plainer terms — getting technologies out of pilot phases and into widespread commercial use. That's the gap a lot of Web3 projects fall into.
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StoreHub has been building for over a decade. Its platform covers point-of-sale, payments, and loyalty solutions, mostly for retail and food-and-beverage businesses.
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For ShardLab, that AI capability is probably part of the attraction. Layering next-generation payment technologies onto a platform that already runs smart commerce tools is a…
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The region isn't a random choice. Southeast Asia has a large, young population with high mobile usage and a significant share of people who still don't have full access to…
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Stablecoin adoption and digital wallet usage across the region have grown sharply in recent years, driven partly by remittance demand and partly by the sheer inconvenience of…
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Hashed brings its own weight to the table. The firm has offices in Seoul, San Francisco, and Singapore, and it's been backing founders in blockchain, AI, and content for years.
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The partnership is also leaning into an iterative process. Rather than launching a finished product and hoping it fits, the plan is to work directly with merchants, gather…
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No specific launch timeline for individual products has been shared. The companies said announcements will come as initiatives become ready, which is vague but at least honest.
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